Median pay for 2007 law grads who went into private practice has surpassed the $100,000 mark, but salaries for their counterparts in other legal jobs still pale in comparison.
A career expert has some advice for law firms running summer associate programs: Spend less money on late-night parties and more on training and mentoring programs.
Where have all the summer scandals gone? So far this season, not one comes to mind, laments law blogger David Lat. Can it really be true that much of the…
Apparently seeking to help associates maintain a better work/life balance, one of London’s major “magic circle” law firms has banned attorneys from using their BlackBerrys while on vacation.
A chart showing the salaries of 2006 law graduates illustrates a striking finding: The bulk of new lawyers are almost evenly divided into the haves and the have-nots.
In a civil theft verdict that could hit two attorneys with some $2 million in damages, a Florida jury found late last month that two longtime associates of a well-known…
Five lawyers at Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder were sanctioned for failing to turn over documents for its client Qualcomm in a discovery dispute, but only two have left the…
San Francisco law firm Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin has pushed back the start dates for three first-year litigation associates by one year.
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